0.5.0 Release
Written for ppa-dev-tools by Bryce Harrington on 2023-09-19
This 0.5 release of ppa-dev-tools includes a number of usage
conveniences people have requested, and some important fixes.
There's multiple ways to install:
By Snap...
$ sudo snap install ppa-dev-tools
$ sudo snap alias ppa-dev-tools.ppa ppa
By PPA...
$ sudo add-apt-repository -ys ppa:bryce/
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-dev-tools
By PIP...
$ pip install ppa-dev-tools
By source...
$ git clone https:/
$ cd ppa-dev-tools
$ sudo python3 ./setup.py install
Notable changes from 0.4 to 0.5
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It is now possible to create PPAs under a different team's ownership via
the `--owner` option:
$ ppa create --owner foobar my-ppa
As a convenience, this can also be specified in ppa address form, i.e.:
$ ppa create ppa:foobar/my-ppa
Furthermore, most places that take a PPA address will also take a full
URL, including URLs ending with /+packages. For example, all of these
are accepted as valid PPA specifiers:
$ ppa wait my-ppa
$ ppa wait myself/my-ppa
$ ppa wait ppa:myself/my-ppa
$ ppa wait https:/
$ ppa wait https:/
$ ppa wait https:/
Private PPA support is now available via the `--private/
arguments, allowing toggling a PPA's privacy, if allowed by Launchpad.
For example:
$ ppa create --private ppa:myself/
It is now possible to save and load Launchpad OAuth credentials, to
permit use of ppa-dev-tools in situations where you can't use
launchpadlib's automatic authentication mechanics. A new command is
added to dump the credentials from an authenticated session:
$ ppa credentials
Launchpad credentials written to credentials.oauth
You can then load them via a new `--credentials` global argument, for
example:
$ ppa --credentials ./credentials.oauth create ppa:myteam/myppa
Credentials can also be supplied via an LP_CREDENTIALS environment
variable. Thanks to Massimiliano Girardi for this feature.
The `ppa wait` behavior has changed to display just a screenful of
status while waiting on builds. The old behavior, where status updates
are printed to stdout and scrolled, is still available via the --log
option.
Also, the `wait` command now supports a 'name' configuration parameter
that allows specifying a single source package to wait on. The
'wait_max_
given timeframe. The 'exit_on_
wait exit if the only jobs that it is monitoring are failed builds.
These options are aimed to facilitate CI/CD integration, but can also
improve performance of the waiting operation on larger PPAs.
This release provides an important bugfix, enabling the `ppa tests`
command to properly parse and handle newer format autopkgtests. The log
files for tests run on Ubuntu lunar and newer are prefixed with a
timestamp that caused `ppa tests` to misread the subtest name. The
timestamps are now recognized and subtest names parsed properly.
(LP: #2025484)
Other bugfixes have focused on improvements to input and error handling
for a variety of conditions that have come up in practice. This
includes some more robust handling of errors generated during Launchpad
outages or other glitches (LP: #1997122).
For more information about ppa-dev-tools, including reporting bugs and
proposing changes via git, please visit the Launchpad project page:
https:/
Bryce
